This movie is based on the life of a poor barber and his neighbors, who all were crudelyoppressed during fascist era of Hitler in the Germany and during Second World War. It tries to show that struggle of common people against oppression and opposition of wrong is necessary. The concept of the movie was based on the thought, "Human beings have given motion to the machines, and make their own life rigid." Rest you decide after watching the movie.

Some Very good quotations from the movie, in the voice of Charlie Chaplin,

"Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little."

At the time he addressed the solders, "Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, and you are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! ", . . "Dictators" (Ruling powers) "free themselves but they enslave the people.",. . "Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.

#. Documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)" by Michael Moore,Views on the political events in United States after September 11, 2001.

It tries to expose that how capitalism creates the situations for the war to overcome the crises of capitalist system.

"Wars in the present globalize stage of capitalism are not something, which happens by chance, or due to hostility of nations, but the situations of war are created by the ruling classes, the capitalists, to maintain the balance in the economy by demolition of the system and means of production to acquire new places of raw material, labor, consumers etc.."

It shows how the capitalist states, with its control on the superstructure, creates the fear of unknown in the mind of people with the help of 'promoting state security issues', 'creating rumors about attack' etc. And all this is done with the help of imposing high security forces on the name of fear from unknown, promotions of rumors with the help of radio, newspapers and TV channels and now also with internet.

Get and Watch this to discover many more hidden sides.

#. Documentary: Hell's Angel by Christopher Hitchens:

In this short video we can see the misuse of religious image of some dedicated social workers by the ruling classes on the name of the religious faith of people.

About Mother Taresa the BBC w.r.t. this documentary has written these words, "she urged the poor to accept their fate, portraying the rich as favoured by God.". . "She lends spiritual solace to dictators and to wealthy exploiters...and preaches surrender and prostration to the poor." (Reference from Here)

Shows greatly the condition of a worker in the capitalist society. How unfree he is in the capitalism, how strongly tighten with the chains of unemployment, poverty and inhuman treatment by so-called civilized society.

#. Documentary: “Capitalism: A Love Story” by Michael Moore

Why everyone should watch the Movie:

This is a movie, mainly focus on the middle class of the capitalist society; and will clear many wrong assumptions and information of the people about Capitalism. Those middle class people who think that capitalism is the only system for the 'progress of society' (?); they must watch it before they become the victim of the capitalism.

This movie beautifully exposes every side of the capitalist superstructure; and opens the doors of mind to think about the society where we all are living.

Even, it exposes the most developed capitalist country “U.S.A.”, it will also clear about the reality of capitalism in other developing countries, which can't give democratic rights to their citizens.

Few points exposed greatly about capitalism in the video:

1. Unemployment is created to develop a reserved army of workers to organize employed labor so that they can work for ‘more time’ with ‘more intensity’ in ‘fewer wages’.

2. How one country provide good livelihood to its citizens by exploiting and robbing the other countries.

3. Freedom and choice for livelihood is not more than a type of slavery for those who own nothing except their physical and mental labor.

4. How religious factors, hypnotize people, so that they can not identify the materialistic problems of the system and understand the reality.

Practical analysis of a factory of U.S.A. was shown in the video; it tried to explain that motivation to do your work come from the 'hope of profit'. (But, in the bourgeoisie system an environment has created where false feeling of selfishness keep working people in the blindness, and their thinking develop around the world view that "I do my work to earn for self and system is ruled by few intelligent people.") As shown in the movie, the motivation to work comes from the 'hope of profit', but it it shows that it is not only for self; it come from the sharing of whole profit among all. Because, if all will earn, and all will work, only in that case all can earn profit out of their work.

What we see in the movie that a factory was running on the principal of democratic socialized production, but our bounded consciousness limits our thinking up to 'self', or up to that 'factory', but we can not think or 'extent' our imagination of the socialized system to the whole state, whole nation or whole world. One person alone can not run the industry, or the state, or the nation, or the system of whole world. So, all will work for the profit (‘profit’ is a selfish word of bourgeoisie system, here 'requirement' will be the better word in this scenario) for all.

There are many more exposures present in the movie. So, try to discover them yourself.

Even the conclusion, which is given in the video, to resolve the problems of the system is not a practical idea, but still it is good exposure of the capitalism. All working people must unite to replace the capitalism with socialism, not only one factory or the group of factories, but whole state of the capitalism, whole society based on selfishness......

#. Capital Vol-1 Lectures: David Harvey Teaching Marx's Capital:

David Harvey (born 31 October 1935, Gillingham, Kent, England) is the Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). David Harwey has been teaching "Marx's Capital" since forty years.

#. Movie: "Modern Times"-1936 by Charli Chaplin:

It is a story about a worker struggling for livelihood in the Capitalist System. This movie greatly shows the working conditions and ways to exploit the labor in the industrial production. It shows how workers are forced to do work as a machine, without any feeling that they are human beings.

Rest you decide after watching the movie.

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Thank you for all your time and effort put to collect all these useful videos and analysis and facts in your blog. These facts no doubt are indifferent part of every individual's life whether we realize it early or late in our lives or even if we do want to act as if these are not.

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